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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Alexander Korda). To save a remaining few aristocratic necks from Robespierre's guillotine, Producer Korda rounds up Sir Percy Blakeney's old crowd of counter-revolutionists, sends them out after Robespierre's own head. Famous Scarlet Pimpernel was well-schooled Actor Leslie Howard. The new one is Actor Barry Barnes, who is very British, often squeaky, and leads the cast in overacting...
This effort to save five shillings ($1.25) blew up around His Majesty's Government last week a whirlwind of Labor charges that they have secretly recognized the Spanish Rightist Government. Alba, one of the very bluest-blooded grandees of Spain and one of the wealthiest under King Alfonso XIII, announced in regard to the affair: "It was a plot of the Reds, that...
...Ennemie (Eden Productions), like The Ghost Goes West and Topper, makes spooks into amiable comedians. Without the sparkle and ingenuity of its predecessors, it is nevertheless a great show of trick photography. Its three ghosts all died for love of the same woman. Forgathered in a French mansion to save her daughter from marrying the wrong man, they find that humans walking back & forth through them give them the tickles. Out in the garden, where there is less traffic, they sit down for a cigaret. Two ghosts light up, offer the same match to the other one. "Non, non!" protests...
...tried to keep her alive by artificial respiration. But Su Lin died.* Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr., who last year brought back Su Lin and this year brought back another baby female panda, Mei-Mei, to serve as Su Lin's companion, promptly planned a third expedition to save Mei-Mei from loneliness...
...Beneath its rear end a keel furrows 16 inches deep in the ocean floor, feeds a cable over a wheel into the trench. The churning wheel and sea's action quickly refill the furrow. Submarine plows can bury 15 miles of cable a day, may be able to save cable companies $500,000 a year...